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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/11/11/1111inject.html

Mother injects her three children with her own blood, authorities say
By Andrew Marra

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 11, 2005

A West Palm Beach-area mother has been arrested on charges of injecting her three children with her own infected blood to intentionally sicken them.

Debra Diaz, 25, confessed Thursday night that she injected her children - ages 1, 2 and 4 - with a syringe in an effort to win attention from hospital caretakers, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

"She admitted what she was doing," sheriff's office spokesman Paul Miller said. "She said she liked the attention she received from hospital personnel."

The children were all hospitalized with illnesses after the injections, to which the sheriff's office was alerted by concerned hospital officials late last month.

"Since October, they've been in and out of the hospital," Miller said.
Diaz was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on three charges of aggravated child abuse.

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/14/jordan.blasts/index.html

'Bomber confession' shocks Jordan


Monday, November 14, 2005; Posted: 9:50 a.m. EST (14:50 GMT)

AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- The televised confession of an Iraqi woman -- accused of planning to be the fourth suicide bomber in last week's deadly attacks in Amman -- has shocked Jordanians, with some expressing joy over her capture and others venting anger over her plans.
Many others were also on Monday asking if Saijida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi really was involved in the bomb plot that killed 57 people in Wednesday's attacks on the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels.

Al-Rishawi achieved global notoriety on Sunday after she was detained and later filmed on Jordanian television describing how the attacks were planned. (Watch: Jordanians get to see and hear alleged bomber -- 2:29)
"My husband detonated his bomb, and I tried to detonate mine but failed," she said on Jordanian television. "People fled running, and I left running with them."

She stood up to display a belt that she and investigators said she had planned to use in the attacks.

Wearing a white head scarf and black dress, she described with apparent calm her role in a plot to kill herself and others. (Watch the woman describe the plans for the attack -- 1:03)
"I sat there watching and couldn't understand how she could be speaking so coldly," Adel Fathi, 29, told The Associated Press. Three of his relatives were killed in the Radisson wedding party reception that was bombed by al-Rishawi's husband.

"What are these people made of?" added Fathi, who closed his women's accessories shop early and joined millions of others who watched the confession.

"It was scary to see her with her bomb but at least we know who she is and she can be punished," said Anwar Nazih, a 15-year-old schoolgirl wearing a navy blue jacket and blue headscarf.

Jordanian authorities say al-Rishawi, 35, and her husband, Hussein Ali al-Shamari, went to carry out their bombings at the Radisson hotel. His explosives went off, killing 38 people attending a wedding reception in the ballroom.

Three male bombers and 57 bystanders were killed at three hotels Wednesday.
Authorities said that in addition to al-Rishawi, 12 people have been detained in connection with the investigation. Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets Sunday, demonstrating against the violence that rocked the capital. But many Jordanians expressed doubt al-Rishawi's confession was real or whether she was even involved in the plot.

"I don't buy it. There are many contradictions, and it just doesn't make sense," Mohammed al-Fakhiri, a 33-year-old mobile telephone shop owner in the Jordanian, capital, Amman, told AP.
"The first thing she would have done is get rid of her explosive belt," al-Fakhiri said. "So how come she was caught with it."

He also said al-Rishawi claimed that her husband had detonated his explosives apparently before she fled. "So how come she wasn't wounded?"

Jordanian authorities say the attacks were carried out by four Iraqis and orchestrated by the terrorist group al Qaeda in Iraq, led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
A posting on a Web site used by al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks, and a later posting said the bombers included a husband-and-wife team.

The latter posting identified the participants as "the leader Abu Hobeib, Abu Moadh and Abu Omeir, and the fourth is our good sister Om Omeir, who chose to accompany her husband on his road to martyrdom."

Al-Rishawi said during her televised confession: "My husband is the one who organized everything."

Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said al-Rishawi is the sister of Zarqawi's "right-hand man," who was killed in Falluja, Iraq. He did not identify the Zarqawi lieutenant.
Muasher identified the other two bombers as 23-year-old Iraqis Rawad Jassem Mohammed Abed and Safaa Mohammed Ali.

He told CNN that al-Rishawi was not wearing an explosives belt when she was apprehended, but two were found with her. One was filled with the explosive RDX, the other with ball bearings -- a technique used by the three bombers who killed themselves Wednesday.
"The aim was to inflict the largest number of casualties," he said.

Muasher said information gathered by Jordanian authorities suggests that al-Rishawi's husband "asked her to step out of the room" when her explosives did not detonate. That description seems to conflict with al-Rishawi's assertion that she fled.

In her confession, al-Rishawi said she and her husband stood at opposite sides of the room for the scheduled double-bombing. (Read the woman's full statement)
She identified herself by name and said she is an Iraqi who lives in Ramadi. She and her husband left November 5 for Jordan, using fake passports.

Muasher: Calming public key

Muasher told CNN the confession was televised because "it is very important for the public to know exactly what happened. I think the public was a bit relieved also to know that there were no Jordanians involved."

He added: "Right now the important thing for us is to calm down our public. Our public has not been used to such attacks."

He denied that there was anything improper in airing her confession, and promised "she will go through a fair trial."

Jordan's King Abdullah II announced the woman's arrest earlier in the day.
Although most suicide bombers are male, there have been female suicide bombers as well, including Palestinians and Chechnyan Muslim separatists.

Terrorism experts say this may be the first known married couple to have planned to carry out a single, joint suicide bombing.

"Her weak soul, her entourage and her husband made her carry out this horrible act because usually women are more sensitive toward such acts," said 33-year-old pharmacist Salma al-Qusous.

"But believe me, I felt disgusted (watching the confession) and this heartless woman deserves the harshest punishment," al-Qusous told AP.

CNN's Brent Sadler, Barbara Starr, Nic Robertson, Henry Schuster and Kristen Gillespie contributed to this report.

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